The Spot-breasted Heleia is a small green bird with a yellow face and a dark line through the eye. It uses the canopy and middle levels of forests on Timor Island.
Adults are green, with a yellow face, bold black eye-line, fine dark scalloping on the crown, and pale yellow streaks on the underparts. Juveniles can have less obvious belly streaking.
It lives in lowland and foothill forests on Timor and uses the canopy and subcanopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.